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+Releases in the 1.3 series will be for development. Version 1.4.0 will
+be the next full production release. I am not planning on dates right now,
+but you can expect maintennence releases for 1.2.9 as well.
+
+With that done, it's time to figure out what we are doing for release
+1.3 development. I have a few ideas. Maybe others do as well.
+
+DOCUMENTATION:
+ We pretty much have decieded that we will doing something along
+ the lines of a literate programming model. So far, we have site
+ documentation in DocBook. I have some ideas here, which I will
+ discuss in a separate thread.
+\f
+
+
+OPTION PROCESSING:
+ I believe we can remove reverse compatibility for non-Getopt
+ option specifications. For example, 'check_ping 1 2 3 4 -p 2'
+ would not be supported anymore. Support for this is a hack,
+ and making it portable is bug-prone. We should also review
+ standardization of our options -- the current list is a little
+ ad hoc, it should be nailed down. Details in a separate thread.
+
+Also,
+
+ check_http -p 443 --ssl www.infoplease.com
+
+should be fine, but if the getopt in use does not natively support it,
+things like
+
+ check_http www.infoplease.com -p 443 --ssl
+
+should be trapped and result in a call to one of the usage macros
+(which print a message and then exit STATE_UNKNOWN).
+
+This means that the call_getopt() function can go away. It's an
+inconsistent mess and I'd love to ditch it. I only created it to
+satisfy people that wanted reverse compatibility and did not have
+GNU getopt.
+
+Bu I would like to urge that all standard plugins contain
+validate_arguments(). I think this will help convey the idea that
+validations hould be done, even if we don't insist on the specific
+extent that each plugin must do that validation.
+
+This is the set of standard options I envision:
+
+Reserved:
+
+-h, --help (REQUIRED!!!!!)
+-V, --version (REQUIRED!!!!!)
+-v, --verbose
+-q, --quiet
+-t, --timeout = INTEGER (senonds)
+-c, --critical = (INT|FLOAT|RANGE|LIST)
+-w, --warning = (INT|FLOAT|RANGE|LIST)
+-H, --hostname = STRING
+-F, --file = STRING (usually input)
+-O, --output = STRING (output file)
+
+Recommended, but not reserverd:
+
+-I, --ipaddress = STRING
+-C, --community = STRING
+-a, --auth(info) = STRING (authentication or password)
+-l, --logname = STRING
+-p, --password = STRING
+-P, --port = INT
+-u, --url = STRING (also --username if --url is not needed)
+
+I am suggesting that port alway be '-P' (uppercase) -- we are
+currently inconsistent in that regard.
+
+I am also adding '-q' for silent running. This is totally self
+centered--I am planning to use a plugin in a cron script, and I
+don't want nightly emails.
+
+As has been the case, ranges are specified with colons, like 'i:j'
+and list are specified with commas like 'i,k' and may contain ranges
+if it makes sense to do so. Perhaps it would be good to build a
+standard list/range processing function for this task.
+\f
+
+Programming:
+ I would like to follow the GNU guidelines and remove all fixed
+ length character assignments, at least to the extent possible,
+ from the C-based plugins. To that end, I have made strscpy and
+ friends in utils.c -- I'd like to deploy them. I have comments
+ that there is alot of duplicated code, and techniques used that
+ should be cleaned up. Details in a separate thread.
+
+Remote checks:
+ I have a proposal in hand to incorporate ssh check into spopen()
+ so that remote machine checks can be seemless. A nice idea, but
+ complex enough to require discussion. Another thread.
+
+I also have a wish list, and I'm sure I've forgot some items. I'll
+list mine, please respond with other items that can be put into the
+sourceforge task manager:
+
+ Indent all code in a GNU-compatible manner (indent -ts 2 -br)
+ Add RAND_seed to check_http for --ssl on systems without /dev/random
+ Add regex filtering to check_procs --args option
+ Add working procs syntax for AIX check_procs
+ Allow check_disk to exclude non-local disks
+ Add md5 checksumming to check_http
+ Complete unification of check_tcp and friends
+ Add SSL in a general way to check_tcp and friends
+ Patches to check_log from Joonas
+ Add calculator engine and snmpwalk to check_snmp
+ Is there a bug in check_oracle
+ Are there outstanding bugs in check_snmp
+ Change check_http --onredirect to default as STATE_UNKNOWN
+ Create plugin to check tftp servers
+ Create plugin wrapper to invert error status
+